When installing freecad via gnome-software, the freecad-common package is installed instead of freecad

Control: found -1  0.19.1+dfsg1-2
Control: not-found -1 0.19.4+dfsg1-1
Control: fixed -1 0.19.3+dfsg1-2
Control: close -1

On Sat, 1 Jul 2023 02:20:13 +0200 Petter Reinholdtsen <p...@hungry.com> wrote:
> [PM Eugen Wintersberger 2022-06-14]
> > when I install freecad via gnome-software the freecad-common package instead
> > of the freecad package is installed. Therefore, a user cannot run freecad 
> > when
> > installed with gnome-software.
> 
> Is this still a problem with version 0.20.2+dfsg1-4?  The freecad
> package in this version contain both the .desktop file and the appstream
> metadata file.

I've just tested this, and -- after disabling bullseye in GnomeSoftware it 
installed the correct package.

This bug was fixed in freecad version 0.19.3+dfsg1-2 with:
https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/freecad/-/commit/73cbb7b843a993c5f2a94f1483b2d8f01028b57a


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tobi

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